Recall: Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible.
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Photographic memory comes to Windows, and is the biggest security setback in a decade.

Q. Is this really as harmful as you think?

A. Go to your parents house, your grandparents house etc and look at their Windows PC, look at the installed software in the past year, and try to use the device. Run some antivirus scans. There’s no way this implementation doesn’t end in tears — there’s a reason there’s a trillion dollar security industry, and that most problems revolve around malware and endpoints.

  • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    No, I don’t think “everyone will get hacked or something”, don’t put words in my. I mouth for the sake of your argument.

    What it is, and this is undeniable, is a massive fucking privacy and security hole if someone gains control of your computer.

    • NoiseColor@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I didn’t want to put words in your mouth, but wanted to clear up where each of us stand so there is no missunderstanding.

      If somebody gains control of your computer today, that’s a massive privacy and security hole in itself.

      • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Absolutely, but even with control of your computer, if you’re smart, other accounts etc will still be inaccessible by the attacker.

        Not when they get access to the Windows built in desktop spy saving everything it sees.

        • NoiseColor@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Not if it’s encrypted and if sensitive information is not saved.

          Main point is still that gaining control of someone’s computer against their will is practically impossible today. If someone manages to do it, they already have your files and all the sensitive information they could want. They won’t even bother with this recall. And if you are worried about it, you will be able to just turn it off.

          Much ado about nothing.

          • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            4 months ago

            “If sensitive information is not saved” is doing a lot of heavy lifting for you there. The issue is that it saves everything.

            • NoiseColor@startrek.websiteEnglish
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              4 months ago

              But it doesn’t save completely everything. It does snapshots as far as I understand. So it’s unlikely a whole password would be there on a snapshot. And again, it had to be mentioned that anything can be excluded from recall or disabled completely.

              At this point it has to be again highlighted that gaining access to a computer is very hard and that in itself is game over scenario. More information can be gained from a keylogger than this recall feature.